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NCI Gadi /g/data (Australia) — 110+ PB persistent parallel filesystem, allocation-gated
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- Free allowance
- Infrastructure is huge — '/g/data4-7 | 110+ PB | Persistent Storage', 'Massdata | 70+ PB' — but there is no free self-service quota: bytes come from the merit-based Adapter scheme or a share of a funded project.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- write-gatedreview
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Infrastructure is huge — '/g/data4-7 | 110+ PB | Persistent Storage', 'Massdata | 70+ PB' — but there is no free self-service quota: bytes come from the merit-based Adapter scheme or a share of a funded project. Adapter is 'temporarily closed. It is scheduled to reopen in Q4 2026'. unit none; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) review source
per-object-cap: n/a (POSIX). Retention: /scratch is job-scoped, /g/data is persistent for the project. request-rate: n/a. Gate: Australian institution + merit review; Adapter currently CLOSED until Q4 2026. |
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| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
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| Egress | Not documented as metered, but access is via NCI systems and Globus rather than public HTTP; there is no public-bucket download path like Allas or OSN. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | s3, sftp sftp |
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| Tooling | POSIX/Lustre on Gadi, Globus for transfer. No S3 endpoint in the storage-systems page. |
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| Composes with | Adapter is quarterly and 'designed to identify meritorious research projects which need flexible compute access over a short period' — the short period is the anti-multiplier; you would be re-applying every quarter. |
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| Reliability | Closed scheme — nothing to get today. |
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "Infrastructure is huge — '/g/data4-7 | 110+ PB | Persistent Storage', 'Massdata | 70+ PB' — but there is no free self-service quota: bytes come from the merit-based Adapter scheme or a share of a funded project. Adapter is 'temporarily closed. It is scheduled to reopen in Q4 2026'.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read